Genomics, systems biology and drug development for infectious diseases

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoyo Sakata ◽  
Elizabeth A. Winzeler
2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 40-51 ◽  

Progen Expands Drug Development Pipeline through Acquisition of CellGate. Morphotek Announces Collaborative Research Agreement with Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Crucell Enters Agreement with Sanofi Pasteur for Biologicals against Rabies. Cellworks Announces Drug Discovery Collaboration with Orchid Based on Systems Biology Technology. ILS Partners with Wistar. CardioDynamics International Corporation (CDIC) Announces Strategic Alliance with Leading Medical Equipment Manufacturer in India. Biocon and IATRICa Partner to Develop Novel Immunoconjugate Therapeutics against Cancer and Infectious Diseases. GSK Launches 2 DTP Vaccines in India. BIOBASE Opens New Subsidiary Nihon BIOBASE KK in Yokohama.


2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon J Cockell ◽  
Jochen Weile ◽  
Phillip Lord ◽  
Claire Wipat ◽  
Dmytro Andriychenko ◽  
...  

SummaryDrug development is expensive and prone to failure. It is potentially much less risky and expensive to reuse a drug developed for one condition for treating a second disease, than it is to develop an entirely new compound. Systematic approaches to drug repositioning are needed to increase throughput and find candidates more reliably. Here we address this need with an integrated systems biology dataset, developed using the Ondex data integration platform, for the in silico discovery of new drug repositioning candidates. We demonstrate that the information in this dataset allows known repositioning examples to be discovered. We also propose a means of automating the search for new treatment indications of existing compounds.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. CIN.S8185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangfang Li ◽  
Lijun Qian ◽  
Michale L. Bittner ◽  
Edward R. Dougherty

Motivated by the frustration of translation of research advances in the molecular and cellular biology of cancer into treatment, this study calls for cross-disciplinary efforts and proposes a methodology of incorporating drug pharmacology information into drug therapeutic response modeling using a computational systems biology approach. The objectives are two fold. The first one is to involve effective mathematical modeling in the drug development stage to incorporate preclinical and clinical data in order to decrease costs of drug development and increase pipeline productivity, since it is extremely expensive and difficult to get the optimal compromise of dosage and schedule through empirical testing. The second objective is to provide valuable suggestions to adjust individual drug dosing regimens to improve therapeutic effects considering most anticancer agents have wide inter-individual pharmacokinetic variability and a narrow therapeutic index. A dynamic hybrid systems model is proposed to study drug antitumor effect from the perspective of tumor growth dynamics, specifically the dosing and schedule of the periodic drug intake, and a drug's pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics information are linked together in the proposed model using a state-space approach. It is proved analytically that there exists an optimal drug dosage and interval administration point, and demonstrated through simulation study.


2010 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Rodriguez ◽  
K Burrage ◽  
D Gavaghan ◽  
V Grau ◽  
P Kohl ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 1177-1182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Nuermberger ◽  
Christine Sizemore ◽  
Klaus Romero ◽  
Debra Hanna

Novel tuberculosis (TB) drug regimens are urgently needed, and their development will be enabled by improved preclinical approaches that more effectively inform and ensure safe selection of clinical candidates and drug combination/regimens. An evidence-based approach for the assessment of nonclinical models supporting TB drug development has been proposed by a joint partnership between the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens (CPTR) Consortium.


2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (15) ◽  
pp. 1520-1528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Schrattenholz ◽  
Vukic Soskic

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 1745-1754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sneha Rai ◽  
Utkarsh Raj ◽  
Pritish Kumar Varadwaj

The conventional way of characterizing a disease consists of correlating clinical symptoms with pathological findings. Although this approach for many years has assisted clinicians in establishing syndromic patterns for pathophenotypes, it has major limitations as it does not consider preclinical disease states and is unable to individualize medicine. Moreover, the complexity of disease biology is the major challenge in the development of effective and safe medicines. Therefore, the process of drug development must consider biological responses in both pathological and physiological conditions. Consequently, a quantitative and holistic systems biology approach could aid in understanding complex biological systems by providing an exceptional platform to integrate diverse data types with molecular as well as pathway information, leading to development of predictive models for complex diseases. Furthermore, an increase in knowledgebase of proteins, genes, metabolites from high-throughput experimental data accelerates hypothesis generation and testing in disease models. The systems biology approach also assists in predicting drug effects, repurposing of existing drugs, identifying new targets, facilitating development of personalized medicine and improving decision making and success rate of new drugs in clinical trials.


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